<p>As a transfer student, how difficult is it to get hockey season ticket?</p>
<p>Nothing is affected by you being a transfer student. Tickets go on sale about a month into the school year, and I believe anybody who wants tickets and completes the application by the deadline can get tickets. Your seating priority (ie, where your seats will be) is based on a combination of how many consecutive seasons you've gotten tickets, and which grade you're in (if you get tickets with a group, you're judged by the person with lowest priority). You'll be better off than freshmen, the same as people in your same class who haven't gotten tickets before, and behind people in your class who had tickets last season.</p>
<p>Thanks! Are their practices open to public?</p>
<p>I'm not sure if the practices are technically open to the public or not. It's certainly not advertised, but I don't think they make any particular kind of effort to keep people out, either (at least it didn't seem that way when my high school team had practice right after them). I'm pretty sure practice is M-Th (and probably Friday, but game day might be different), roughly from 1-3 (first 2 hours or so being team practice, last hour is just open ice for guys to screw around).</p>
<p>Another thing to keep in mind is you can get standing room tickets for almost every game. Cheaper than regular seats.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, how competitive is intramural in Mich? I'm thinking about playing and I think of myself as an average skater at best.</p>
<p>There is no IM hockey...there is probably a club team. Just with how big hockey is in the state of Michigan, I would assume the level of play would be pretty high. A very IM fun sport to play is broomball.</p>
<p>Don't know if they do drop-in hockey at Yost, but there is drop-in hockey at the A2 Ice Cube on Scio Church...you won't be able to get there without a car though.</p>
<p>There's a club team, and it's pretty competitive. A lot of people who played Michigan high school hockey, and a couple kids who played midgets/junior hockey. You'd also miss pretty much every varsity hockey game, because when one team is home the other is generally on the road.</p>
<p>There's no drop-in hockey at Yost, just public skate and sticks n pucks (with no shooting allowed). You can theoretically get to the Cube by bus, but you'd have to walk a little bit, and it would be a hassle to carry around your equipment that much (let alone store it in your dorm room).</p>
<p>Yeah, I noticed Yost is kind of small for a hockey arena, but I assume hockey isn't as popular as football...</p>
<p>I'm not good enough for the club team :( Guess the only option is pick-up huh?</p>
<p>Yost is actually one of the relatively larger ice arenas in the CCHA (with respect to capacity). It's not nearly as popular as football, one of the most regionalized sports, and there are a lot of teams from small schools/cities.</p>
<p>You could also try and join a Men's league out of the Cube and get a ride. I know there was a team over the winter of just Michigan students. In addition to the Cube, there's also pick-up hockey at Buhr Park. It's an older outdoor rink. I'd imagine there's a bus stop near the rink since it's off of Packard, but there's also a pretty long driveway, so I don't know if it would be any more convenient than the Cube.</p>